In today’s world of plug-and-play peripheral devices, it is difficult to understand the fundamentals of what is happening at the lower levels. How does the computer connect to the device? How does it communicate with [more…]
When animator Don Bluth agreed to animate an obscure laserdisc videogame tentatively titled “The Dragon’s Lair”, little did he know it would become one of his biggest successes… Dragon’s Lair… Dragon’s Lair… ah yes Dragon’s [more…]
HOW TO MAKE MONEY USING COMPUTERS… sounds like the title of a bargain book, but in the late 1980s it was a dream-come-true for many a budding desktop publisher. Or it was for some of [more…]
The graphics and music in videogames may be an art-form all their own but while videogame consoles provide their owners with an opportunity to appreciate them, they are not generally designed to also give those [more…]
So, we’ve seen that digital creativity in the 1980s had a few avenues that could be explored: Logo let you draw to the screen programatically with the turtle, you could paint on the CRT with [more…]
Early computer and videogame magazines often featured comics. Here’s a few we’ve found researching for our articles…
So, it’s 1983 and you’ve saved up and bought yourself a shiny new computer with state-of-the-art graphics capabilities, and you’re ready to become a digital Picasso. But then you realise the only way you can [more…]
The Amiga represented an evolutionary leap forward in computing’s creative potential. While colour computer graphics were not a new invention, the Amiga provided a video mode capable of displaying 4096 colours – previously unprecedented in [more…]
Once upon a time… …in a land far away lived Jack and Jay. Jack was the Commander of an armada known as Commodore, while Jay was a Grand Wizard in the royal court of the [more…]
Sysop of The Lower Planes BBS Anthony Adverse answers a few of our questions about the Australian BBS Scene… Thanks for taking the time to chat with us! Firstly, we assume you were a BBS [more…]
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